This paper provides an introduction to the concept of social capital, and carries out a critical review of the empirical literature on social capital and economic development. The survey points out six main weaknesses affecting the empirics of social capital. Identified weaknesses are then used...

This paper presents an experimental investigation of persuasion bias, a form of bounded rationality whereby agents communicating through a social network are unable to account for repetitions in the information they receive. We find that, after repeated communication within a social network,...

Initially developed in order to allow human interactions in the virtual environment as online communities of people having common concerns and willing to share and exchange ideas, today social networks represent one of the online marketing tools with the

Examining board of directors’ decision making in case studies of CEOs and board members in four US companies, we found that an “inner board” of directors and CEOs linked by network ties outside of board meetings contained the most influential board members who also shared cognitions about...

Today television programs produced by a few American companies, the Majors, are among the most popular with viewers. This dissertation examines the process of cultural uniformisation that has driven this phenomenon by focusing on commercial interactions in the global distribution market for...

<Para ID="Par1">Casual observation suggests that in most U.S. urban labor markets, immigrants have more immigrant coworkers than native-born workers do. While seeming obvious, this excess tendency to work together has not been precisely measured, nor have its sources been quantified. Using matched...</para>

Fast, global, and sensitively reacting to political, economic and social events of any kind – these are attributes that social media like Twitter share with foreign exchange markets. Does the former allow us to predict the latter above chance level? The leading assumption of this paper is that...

Simplicial complexes represent powerful models of complex networks and complex systems in general. We explore the properties of spectra of combinatorial Laplacian operator of simplicial complexes in the context of connectivity of cliques in the simplicial clique complex associated with social...

We provide an overview and synthesis of the literatures analyzing games in which players are connected via a network structure. We discuss, in particular, the impact of the structure of the network on individuals’ behaviors. We focus on game theoretic modeling, but also include some...

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <I>Social Networks</I> (2012). Vol. 34(4), pages 161-179.<P> This paper proposes a new measure for a group's ability to lead society to adopt their standard of behavior, which in particular takes account of the time the group takes to convince the whole...</p></i>